Old Photograph The Dwarfie Stane Scotland

Old photograph of The Dwarfie Stane on Hoy an island of the Orkney Islands, Scotland. This a is a megalithic chambered tomb carved out of a titanic block of Devonian Old Red Sandstone located in a steep-sided glaciated valley between the settlements of Quoys and Rackwick. It is the only chambered tomb in Orkney that is cut from stone rather than built from stones and might be the only example of a Neolithic rock-cut tomb in Britain. The name is derived from local legend that a dwarf named Trollid lived there, although, ironically, the tomb has also been claimed as the work of giants. Its existence was popularised in Walter Scott's novel The Pirate published in 1821.



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Old Photograph Holy Pool Strathfillan Scotland

Old photograph of the Holy Pool in Strathfillan, Perthshire, Scotland. The Holy Pool, opposite Stathfillan Manse, was famous for its connection with St Fillan. Until the middle of the last century insane persons were bathed in the pool. The tradition of bathing insane persons in the pool is still known locally but the pool is said to have lost its power when a wild bull was thrown into it.

St. Fillan was the abbot of a monastery in Fife before retiring to Glen Dochart and Strathfillan near Tyndrum in Perthshire. At an Augustinian priory at Kirkton Farm along to the West Highland Way, the priory's lay abbot, who was its superior in the reign of William the Lion, held high rank in the Scottish kingdom. This monastery was restored in the reign of King Robert the Bruce, and became a cell of the abbey of canons regular at Inchaffray Abbey. The new foundation received a grant from King Robert, in gratitude for the aid which he was supposed to have obtained from a relic of the saint on the eve of the great victory over King Edward II's English soldiers at the Battle of Bannockburn. The saint's original chapel was up river, slightly north west of the abbey and adjacent to a deep body of water which became known as St. Fillan's Pool.



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Old Photograph Woodside Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Woodside located twelve miles from Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish village is joined onto another village, Burrelton. It is two miles from Coupar Angus, the nearest town. Woodside used to have a train station, part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. The now closed station was known as the Woodside and Burrelton railway station.



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Old Photograph Oldhamstocks Scotland

Old photograph of Oldhamstocks, East Lothian. Scotland. Oldhamstocks or Aldhamstocks, meaning old dwelling place, is located adjacent to the Scottish Borders. The parish church was consecrated in 1292. Oldhamstocks is the birthplace of John Broadwood, born 1732, died 1812, piano maker and founder of Broadwood and Sons. John, a Scottish joiner and cabinetmaker, went to London, England, in 1761 and began to work for the Swiss harpsichord manufacturer Burkat Shudi. He married Shudi's daughter eight years later and became a partner in the firm in 1770. As the popularity of the harpsichord declined, the firm concentrated increasingly on the manufacture of pianos, abandoning the harpsichord altogether in 1793. He produced his first square piano in 1771, after the model of Johannes Zumpe, and worked assiduously to develop and refine the instrument, moving the wrest plank of the earlier pianoforte, which had sat to the side of the case as in the clavichord, to the back of the case in 1781, straightening the keys, and replacing the hand stops with pedals. In 1785 Thomas Jefferson, later to be third President of the United States, visited Broadwood in Great Pulteney Street, Soho, to discuss musical instruments.



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Old Photograph Burnbank Scotland

Old photograph of a Bus, shops, people and houses in Burnbank, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Since the 19th century immigrants from many parts of the world have settled in Burnbank. Immigration from other parts of Scotland during the period of the Highland Clearances occurred. The most significant to date numerically were undoubtedly the Irish immigrants who arrived between the mid 19th century and the mid 20th century mainly to work in the coal-fields and heavy industry. Immigration to Burnbank from Italy was mainly from the Lucca and Frosinone in the Abruzzi. Some of the Italian Scots in Burnbank owned ice-cream parlours (which later became fish and chip shops) and operated ice cream carts, later vans, to such an extent that the local term for an ice cream seller became " tally " , derived from Italian, as in " tally van ".



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Old Photograph Glencarse Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Glencarse located four miles to the East of Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish village lies alongside the A90 road. It was formerly served by a railway station on the Caledonian Railway. John Gabriel Murray, a former Provost of St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow, was the incumbent of the Scottish Episcopal Church’s All Saints Church in the village from 1959 to 1970.



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Old Photograph Seggieden House Scotland

Old photograph of Seggieden House located near Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish mansion house was bought from Sir Thomas Blair of Balthayock in 1652 by John Nairn. He was succeeded by his third daughter, Barbara Hay, wife of Patrick Hay, second son of James Hay of Pitfour. Their son, John Hay inherited the estate and he married Lilias Hay, daughter of John Hay of Pitfour. James Hay of Seggieden, born 1739, died 781, succeeded his father in 1754 and married Jean Donaldson in 1770. He built Seggieden House, which was finished in 1789, in the Adam style. His son, James Hay born 1771, died 1838, inherited the estate in 1781. James Hay pursued a military career and had many commissions including the Eastern Battalion of the Royal Perthshire Local Militia, he was also a deputy lieutenant of Perthshire. He married Margaret Richardson, daughter of John Richardson of Pitfour, in 1801 and their son Captain James Richardson Hay, born 1802, died 1854, inherited the estate in 1838. He married in 1833 Margaret Lothian Douglas and succeeded his mother in the estate of Aberargie assuming the name of Richardson-Hay. On his death his daughter, Charlotte Elizabeth Richardson-Hay, born 1834, died 1914, inherited the estate. She married Captain Henry Maurice Drummond, born 1814, died 1896, son of Admiral Sir Adam Drummond of Megginch, in 1859. The couple assumed the name of Drummond-Hay on their marriage. Captain Henry Drummond-Hay was a captain in the 42nd Royal Highlanders and a keen naturalist. His grandson, James Drummond-Hay born 1905, died 1981, inherited the estate in 1928 and married Lady Margaret Douglas Hamilton in 1930. He was a major in the Scots Guards during the Second World War and served in Germany in the post-war government, returning to live at Seggieden in 1948.



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Old Photograph Butterstone House Scotland

Old photograph of Butterstone House, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish mansion house was a Preparatory School founded in 1947 by The Hon Elizabeth Lyle, the younger daughter of Sir Archibald Sinclair of Ulbster, MP for Caithness and Sutherland, leader of the Liberal Party, Winston Churchill's wartime Secretary of State for Air and in 1952 created Viscount Thurso. Between 1947 and 1991 the school was located at Butterstone House, near Dunkeld before merging with Kilgraston School in Bridge of Earn.



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Old Photograph Arthurstone House Scotland

Old photograph of Arthurstone House located fifteen miles from Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish mansion house dates from around 1789. It was owned by the Carmichael family from 1869 until 1990. The house has a romantic history, with legend claiming that the estate obtained its name from an ancient stone of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere which was found within the ground.



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Tour Scotland Video Westie Listening To Pipe Band In Kinross Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of a West Highland White Terrier, commonly known as the Westie or Westy, listening to bagpipes music at the Loch Leven Pipe Band Competition on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Kinross, Perthshire, Scotland. Kinross was the home of Flight Sergeant George Thompson whose posthumous Victoria Cross in 1945 is often cited as the best merited of the entire air war. He was the wireless operator in a Lancaster of No. 9 Squadron on a dawn raid against the Dortmund-Ems Canal when the plane was struck by a salvo of two 88mm shells.

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Tour Scotland Video Marching Pipe Bands Kinross Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of Pipe Bands marching in the rain at the Loch Leven Pipe Band Competition on ancestry visit, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Kinross Perthshire.
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Tour Scotland Video Marching Pipe Band Parade Kinross Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Pipe Bands marching through town after the start of the Loch Leven Half Marathon on ancestry visit to Kinross by Loch Leven on ancestry visit to Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Boys Brigade Parade Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the Boys Brigade Parade on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The Boys' Brigade was founded in Glasgow by Sir William Alexander Smith on 4 October 1883 to develop Christian manliness by the use of a semi-military discipline and order, gymnastics, summer camps and religious services and classes. By 1910, there were about 2200 companies connected with different churches throughout the British Empire and the United States, with 10,000 officers and 100,000 boys.

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Old Photograph Maiden Stone Scotland

Old photograph The Maiden Stone, also known as Drumdurno Stone after the nearby farm near Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Local legend states that the daughter of the Laird of Balquhain made a bet with a stranger that she could bake a bannock faster than he could build a road to the top of Bennachie. The prize would be the maiden's hand. However, the stranger was the Devil and finished the road and claimed the forfeit. The maiden ran from the Devil and prayed to be saved. The legend finishes by saying that God turned her to stone, and the notch is where the Devil grasped her shoulder as she ran.



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Tour Scotland Video Loch Leven Half Marathon Kinross Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the start of the 31st Loch Leven Half Marathon on visit to Kinross by Loch Leven on ancestry visit to Perthshire, Scotland. This wonderful event is organised by Kinross Road Runners.

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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Bluebells Moot Hill Scone Palace Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland May video of Scottish bluebells on Moot Hill on ancestry visit to Scone Palace, by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Scone was as an ancient gathering place of the Picts, and was probably the site of an early Christian church. The place of coronation was called Caislean Credi, Hill of Credulity, which survives as the present Moot Hill. In the Middle Ages the mound was marked with a stone cross, but this disappeared probably at the Scottish Reformation in 1559, when the Abbey buildings were sacked by a mob from Dundee.

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Tour Scotland Travel Video Walk To Stone Of Destiny Scone Palace Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of a walk to the Stone Of Destiny on Moot Hill on ancestry visit to Scone Palace, by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The Stone of Scone, also known as the Stone of Destiny and often referred to in England as The Coronation Stone was used for centuries in the coronation of the monarchs of Scotland and later the monarchs of England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom.

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Tour Scotland Video Woodland Walk Bluebells Wood Kinclaven Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a woodland walk in the bluebell woods located by the road between Kinclaven and Murthly on ancestry visit to rural Perthshire, Scotland. These are native Scottish bluebells a very beautiful sight growing wild throughout Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Drive Over Kinclaven Bridge To Kinclaven Woods

Tour Scotland video of a May drive over Kinclaven Bridge which spans the River Tay on visit to Kinclaven Woods in Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Court Of Deans Of Guild Parade Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the Court Of Deans Of Guild Parade on ancestry visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The parade was led by Colonel Peter Little, 51st Highland 7th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland and the Perth and District Pipe Band. The parade included Alastair Anderson, Lord President of the Court of Deans of Guild, Liz Grant, Provost of Perth and Kinross, and the heads of various Guilds, including Burgess of Guild of the City of Aberdeen, Arbroath Guildry, Ayr Guildry, Guild of Freemen of Berwick-upon-Tweed, Guildry of Brechin, Guildry of Dundee, Company of Merchants of the City of Edinburgh, Merchants House of Glasgow, Guildry of Lanark, Perth Guildry, Merchant Guildry of Stirling. Each Guildry has a rich history ranging over 300 years. Also in the procession were 18 members of the Society of Constables of Perth.

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Tour Scotland Video Aaron Fyfe Trouble Me Greyfriars Bar Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of singer, songwriter, Aaron Fyfe singing a cover version of Trouble by Ray LaMontagne in the Greyfriars Bar on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

Trouble
Been doggin' my soul since the day I was born
Worry
Just will not seem to leave my mind alone
Well I've been saved by a woman
I've been saved by a woman
I've been saved by a woman
She won't let me go
She won't let me go now
She won't let me go
She won't let me go now

Trouble
Feels like every time I get back on my feet
She come around and knock me down again
Worry
Sometimes I swear it feels like this worry is my only friend
Well I've been saved by a woman
I've been saved by a woman
I've been saved by a woman
She won't let me go
She won't let me go now
She won't let me go
She won't let me go now

She good to me now
She gave me love and affection
She good to me now
She gave me love and affection
I said I love her
She's good to me
She's good to me

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Tour Scotland Video Being Kissed By A Scottish Clydesdale Horse

Tour Scotland travel video of being kissed by a friendly Scottish Clydesdale horse by the roadside on visit and trip to Fife. The Clydesdale is a breed of draught horse derived from the farm horses of Clydesdale, Scotland, and named after that region. Although originally one of the smaller breeds of draught horses, it is now a tall breed. Often bay in colour, they show significant white markings due to the presence of sabino genetics. The breed was originally used for agriculture and haulage, and is still used for draught purposes today. The Budweiser Clydesdales are some of the most famous Clydesdales, and other members of the breed are used as drum horses by the British Household Cavalry.

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Tour Scotland Video Bagpiper Aaron Bryce St John's Kirk Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of Piper Aaron Bryce playing bagpipes music on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to St John's Kirk in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The burgh of Perth was important in medieval times due to its position as the lowest safe crossing point on the River Tay and its proximity to Scone, the Coronation site for Scottish kings. St John’s, the burgh church, stood at its centre giving Perth its alternative name St John’s Town, a name which lives on in that of the local football team, St Johnstone. Earliest written record of St John’s is 1128 when King David I ceded its revenue to the Abbey of Dunfermline in Fife, in return for which the Abbey provided a priest.

The surname Bryce is probably of Celtic origin. Bricius Judex is recorded in the Register of the Abbey of Aberbrothoc, Scotland, in 1189, and a Bricius de Kyrkebi was recorded in 12th Century Social and Economic Documents of London, England. There is an old Lennox family, of the name Bryce, Adam and John Bryce in Braco who were resettlers of outlawed members of Clan Gregor in 1613.

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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Bagpipe Music Scone Palace Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of Scottish bagpipers playing bagpipe music on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip by Scone Palace, Scotland. The historic house of Scone Palace was constructed in 1808 for the Earls of Mansfield by William Atkinson. Built of red sandstone with a castellated roof, it is a classic example of the late Georgian Gothic style. In the Middle Ages the land was the site of a major Augustinian abbey, Scone Abbey, of which nothing now remains above the ground level, the crowning place of the Kings of the Scots, on the Stone of Destiny, down to King Alexander III.

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Old Photograph River Lyon Near MacGregor's Leap Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of the River Lyon near MacGregor's Leap in Perthshire, Scotland. The leap gets its name from an outlaw member of the MacGregor clan, who is said to have escaped justice by leaping the falls here. The Glen is packed with history. It is infamous for having been the home of John Campbell of Glen Lyon, responsible for the Glencoe massacre. The glen has been home to many families, including MacGregors, Lyons, Menzies, Stewarts, Macnaughtans, MacGibbons and the Campbells of Glen Lyon.


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Old Photograph Dog Stone Scotland

Old photograph of The Dog Stone by Dunollie Castle near Oban, Scotland. Scottish folklore has it that the giant, Finn the Fingal of MacPherson, also known as Ossian, used to tie his legendary dog Bran to the stone, hence the name.



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Tour Scotland Video Bagpiper Duncan MacDonald High Street Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of Bagpiper Duncan MacDonald from Newburgh, Fife, playing the bagpipes in the High Street on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.
MacDonald, Macdonald, and McDonald are Anglicised forms of the Scottish Gaelic and Irish Gaelic name MacDhòmhnaill, which in modern Gaelic is approximated as McConnell. It is a patronym where Mac means " son " and Dhòmhnaill means " of Dòmhnall ". The personal name Dòmhnall is composed of the elements domno " world " and val " might ", " rule ". The Gaelic personal name is probably a borrowing from the British Celtic Dyfnwal. In the context of Scottish clans, the various forms of the name refer to one of the largest clans, Clan Donald.

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Tour Scotland Video Aaron New York City's Killing Me Greyfriars Bar Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of singer, songwriter, Aaron Fyfe singing a cover version of New York City's Killing Me by Ray LaMontagne in the Greyfriars Bar on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

There's just somethin' about this hotel
Got me wishin' I was dead
Gotta get out of New York City, son
Somewhere I can clear my head

I was just kickin' along the sidewalk
No one looks you in the eye
No one asks you how you're doin'
Don't seem to care if you live or if you die

I just got to get me somewhere
Somewhere that I can feel free
Gotta get out of New York City, boy
New York City's killin' me

It was just outside of Nashville
I met the woman of my dreams
Sure would like to get to know her
Maybe find out what it means

I get so tired of all this concrete
I get so tired of all this noise
Gotta get back up in the country
Have a couple drinks with the good ol' boys

I just got to get me somewhere
Somewhere that I can feel free
Get me out of New York City, son
New York City's killin' me

I just got to get me somewhere
Somewhere that I can feel free
Get me out of New York City, son
New York City's killin' me
Gotta get out of New York City, son
New York City's killin' me

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Tour Scotland Video Gavin Munro Singing The Bottle Let Me Down Greyfriars Bar Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Gavin Munro and friends singing a cover version of The Bottle Let Me Down by Merle Haggard in the Greyfriars Bar on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

Each night I leave the bar room when it's over
Not feeling any pain at closing time
But tonight your memory found me much too sober
Couldn't drink enough to keep you off my mind

Tonight the bottle let me down
And let your memory come around
The one true friend I thought I'd found
Tonight the bottle let me down

I've always had a bottle I could turn to
And lately I've been turnin' every day
But the wine don't take effect the way it used to
And I'm hurtin' in old familiar ways

Tonight the bottle let me down
and let your memory come around
The one true friend I thought I'd found
Tonight the bottle let me down

Tonight the bottle let me down

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Tour Scotland Video Gavin Munro I Sent You Up Greyfriars Bar Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Gavin Munro and friends singing a cover version of I Sent You Up by Knife in the Water in the Greyfriars Bar on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

Well, I watched the fire in earnest
'Cause I thought it would quell my pain
But the more that I saw you burning
The more I only felt the same

So, I sent you up
But the angels turned you down
And the devil already had you
Well, he turned you right back around

So, I put you on the canvas
Like a prison for all time
But I couldn't stand to see your face
Sent chills along my spine

So, I sent you up
But the angels turned you down
And the devil already had you
But he turned you right back around

So, I cut you into pieces
And I threw you in the river
Now, the fishes, they all curse me
For the poison I deliver

So, I sent you up
But the angels turned you down
And the devil already had you
But he turned you right back around

Now your body's in the ocean
About nine hundred miles from home
And your life it never left you
Well, it just wants to be alone

So, I sent you up
But the angels turned you down
And the devil already had you
But he turned you right back around

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Old Photograph Lochrutton Parish Church Scotland

Old photograph of Lochrutton Parish Church near Dumfries, Scotland. This Scottish church is located on rising ground overlooking a large area of countryside. The church is located on the site of a pre-Reformation church, and old gravestones in the graveyard testify to this. The current church has whinstone walls and a slate roof. The walls are whitewashed. There is also a belltower.



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Old Photograph Kildalton Cross Scotland

Old photograph of Kildalton Cross, Island of Islay, Scotland. This is a monolithic high cross in Celtic cross form in the churchyard cemetery of the former parish church of Kildalton, from Scottish Gaelic Cill Daltain, " Church of the Foster Son " i.e. St John the Evangelist, on the island of Islay in the Inner Hebrides. It was carved probably in the second half of the 8th century AD, and is closely related to crosses of similar date on the isle of Iona. It is often considered the finest surviving Celtic cross in Scotland, and is certainly one of the most perfect monuments of its date to survive on western Europe.



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Tour Scotland Video Heavy Horse Sculpture Coupar Angus Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the heavy horse sculpture on ancestry visit to Coupar Angus, Perthshire, Scotland. The heavy horse has been made from corten steel, the same material used to build the Angel of the North, and celebrates the equine heritage of Coupar Angus.

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Old Photograph Balcaskie House Scotland

Old photograph of Balcaskie House located North of Pittenweem, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This Scottish house was first built before 1629, as the home of the Moncrieffs of that Ilk, and was an L-plan house of four storeys. In 1665 the estate was bought by Sir William Bruce, who set about enlarging the house between 1668 and 1674. Bruce planned the new house himself, and employed John Hamilton as mason, and Andrew Waddell as wright. The estate was sold in 1684 to Sir Thomas Steuart, when Bruce moved to his new home at Kinross House. In 1698 it changed hands again, becoming the property of Sir Robert Anstruther, whose son Philip undertook works in the mid-18th century, including heightening the central block. It was now that the wing walls and pavilions were added, according to John Gifford. Further alterations were made by William Burn in 1830-32, including a porch and new windows, and a stable block. Between 1856 and 1858 David Bryce worked at Balcaskie, adding several baronial features. Balcaskie remains the seat of the Chief of the Name and Arms of Clan Anstruther.



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Tour Scotland Video Drive North On M90 From Edinburgh To Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland April video of part of a drive North from Edinburgh on the M90 Motorway and over Friarton Bridge which spans the River Tay, on ancestry visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Friarton Bridge is a two lane dual carriageway; unusually for a motorway, although not unusually for the M90, neither carriageway has a hard shoulder. When it was built in 1978, it was designated as the M85 motorway. When the A85 from the north end of the bridge to Dundee was renumbered in the early 1990s to A90 through to Dundee, the motorway's designation changed to M90 to provide a continuous route number from Edinburgh through to Fraserburgh.

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Tour Scotland Video Classic Cars Gleneagles Hotel Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of classic cars from Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire, leaving after a visit to the Scottish Vintage Bus Museum located North of Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. The Scottish Vintage Bus Museum based at Lathalmond near Dunfermline is a gem for the bus enthusiast, featuring preserved buses and coaches from all over the British Isles, but majoring on the fleets of Scotland in the years gone by.

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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Clydesdale Horse Foal Kinross Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of a Scottish Clydesdale horse Foal on history visit and trip near Kinross, Perthshire. The Clydesdale is a Scottish breed of draught horse. It is named for its area of origin, the Clydesdale or valley of the River Clyde, much of which is within the county of Lanarkshire. The first recorded use of the name Clydesdale for the breed was in 1826; the horses spread through much of Scotland and into northern England. After the breed society was formed in 1877, thousands of Clydesdales were exported to many countries of the world, particularly to Australia and New Zealand. The Clydesdale was originally used for agriculture, hauling coal in Lanarkshire, and heavy hauling in Glasgow. Clydesdale horses are big. They range in height from 64 to 72 inches from their foot to their shoulder. That's about six feet tall, so that means that many Clydesdales are taller than the average adult man. They can also weigh up to 2,000 pounds, or 907 kilograms, which is one ton. Even Clydesdale foals are very big. A newborn foal can weigh up to 180 pounds, or 81 kilograms. Clydesdale horses are usually a reddish brown color that is sometimes called bay. They can also be brown, chestnut, and black. Some Clydesdales have white faces and bellies, and small white patches on other parts of their bodies. Their coats are thick. One thing that all Clydesdales have in common is feathering, the long hair that grows around their ankles. This feathering, paired with their thick coats, helped Clydesdales to survive in the cold winters of Scotland, where the horse is from. Most Clydesdales have white feathering. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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Old Photograph Crofthead Mill Scotland

Old photograph of Crofthead Mill in Neilston, East Renfrewshire near Glasgow, Scotland. Crofthead Mill, known locally as Neilston Mill, was established in 1792. It was one of seven large cotton mills on the banks of the River Levern between Neilston and Dovecothall. Because of the large size of the complex, coupled with its short distance from the main residential core of Neilston, it was described in 1830, at the peak of the industry's prosperity, as " a little town of its self. "





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Old Photograph Connel Bridge Scotland

Old photograph of Connel Bridge, Argyll, Scotland. This Scottish bridge is a cantilever bridge that spans Loch Etive at Connel in Scotland. The bridge takes the A828 road across the narrowest part of the loch, at the Falls of Lora. The bridge appears in the 1981 film Eye of the Needle, starring Donald Sutherland. In the film, Sutherland's character is seen riding a stolen motorcycle across the bridge, which he then disposes of by pushing it down the embankment at the north end of the bridge after it runs out of fuel.




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Old Photographs Laggan Dam Scotland

Old photograph of Laggan Dam on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to the Highlands of Scotland. This Scottish dam located on the River Spean south west of Loch Laggan. It is part of the Lochaber hydro-electric scheme. The structure was built by Balfour Beatty for the British Aluminium Company and construction was finished in 1934. Water from the dam is conveyed to Loch Treig through 3 miles of tunnel. From there, the waters are conveyed to a power house at Fort William via 15 feet diameter pipe 15 miles long. The dam can be found next to the A86 road from Fort William<.



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Old Photograph Collegiate Church of St Nicholas Buccleuch Dalkeith Scotland

Old photograph of The Collegiate Church of St Nicholas Buccleuch in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland. This Medieval church, became collegiate in 1406. Medieval nave and transepts restored in 1854 by David Bryce. James, 1st Earl of Morton, and his wife Princess Joanna, the profoundly deaf third daughter of James I, are buried within the choir. Joan Stewart, Countess of Morton, also called Joanna, born 1428, died 16 October 1486), was the daughter of James I, King of Scotland, and the wife of James Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton. She was known, in Latin, as the muta domina, mute lady, of Dalkeith. Joan had two younger brothers, including the future King of Scotland, James II, and five sisters. She had the misfortune to be deaf and dumb. Joan married The 4th Baron Dalkeith before 15 May 1459, who at the time of their marriage was raised to the peerage as the first Earl of Morton. Together Joan and her husband James had four children: Sir John Douglas, 2nd Earl of Morton, killed at the Battle of Flodden; James Douglas; Janet, married to Sir Patrick Hepburn, 1st Earl of Bothwell. Elizabeth, mentioned in a charter of 1479 after which nothing further is known of her.


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Old Photograph Cove Argyll Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Cove in Argyll, Scotland. This Scottish village is on the south west of the Rosneath peninsula, on the east shore of Loch Long. In common with many villages in the area, it was home to wealthy Glasgow merchants and shipowners in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Several of the large houses have either been converted or have gone. Survivors include over a dozen houses by Alexander " Greek " Thomson: Craigrownie Castle, Glen Eden, Craig Ailey, Ferndean and Seymour Lodge, all dating from the 1850s.



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Old Photographs Strathyre Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and people in Strathyre near Balquhidder, Scotland. Now in the Stirling local government district this village was at one time part of Perthshire. It is within the bounds of the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park. It is largely a Victorian creation, having grown up with the arrival of the railway in the 1870s and the establishment of Strathyre railway station.



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Old Photograph Eliock House Scotland

Old photograph of Eliock House by Sanquhar north of Dumfries, Scotland. The lands of Elliok were in the hands of the Dalzell family from 1388 to 1720. This large Scottish mansion house, standing on a natural platform overlooking the River Nith, was owned by the Veitch family up until at least 1905 and later by James Irving McConnel, born 1863, fourth son of Frederic McConnel of Blackyett, Dumfriesshire.

The Dalzell name originates from the former barony of Dalzell in Lanarkshire, in the area now occupied by Motherwell. The name Dalzell is first recorded in 1259, and Thomas de Dalzell fought at the Battle of Bannockburn. The Dalzell lands were forfeited later in the 14th century, but regained through marriage in the 15th. Sir Robert Dalzell was created Lord Dalzell in 1628, and his son was further elevated in the peerage as Earl of Carnwath, in 1639. In 1645 the Dalzell estates were sold to the Hamiltons of Orbiston, who held them until the 20th century.



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Tour Scotland Video Charity Hairdressing Show City Centre Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a Breakthrough Breast Cancer charity hairdressing show on visit to the St John's Shopping Centre in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Breakthrough Breast Cancer is the leading charity in the UK dedicated to stopping women dying from breast cancer.

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Tour Scotland Video Charity Fashion Show City Centre Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a Breakthrough Breast Cancer charity fashion show on visit to the St John's Shopping Centre in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Breakthrough Breast Cancer is the leading charity in the UK dedicated to stopping women dying from breast cancer.

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Old Photograph New Luce Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and people in New Luce in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This Scottish village is located in the traditional county of Wigtownshire. The coast to coast walk, the Southern Upland Way, passes close to the village. The Covenanter Alexander Peden spent time preaching in the village. Peden was born at Auchincloich Farm near Sorn, Ayrshire, about 1626, and was educated at the University of Glasgow. He was a teacher at Tarbolton and then ordained minister of New Luce in Galloway in 1660. In June 1673 while holding a conventicle at Knockdow near Ballantrae, Ayrshire, he was captured by Major William Cockburn, and condemned by the Privy Council to four years and three months imprisonment on the Bass Rock and a further fifteen months in the Edinburgh Tolbooth. In December 1678 he, along with 60 others, was sentenced to banishment to the American plantations. They were transported by ship to London, where they were supposed to be transferred to an American ship, however the American captain on hearing the reason for their banishment released them. Peden made his way north again to divide the remaining years of his life between his own country and the north of Ireland. His last days were spent in a cave on the River Lugar in the parish of Sorn, near his birthplace and his brother's farm in Auchinleck, and there he died in 1686, worn out by hardship and privation.




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Old Photograph Stichill House Scotland

Old photograph of Stichill House located two miles North of Kelso, Borders, Scotland. This Scottish house is located in the historic territory of the Pringles, a notorious Riding family of Border Reivers. The Pringles of Stichill are a cadet branch of the Pringles of Smailholm. Robert Pringle of Bartingbush purchased the lands of Stichill in 1628, and his grandson, another Robert Pringle, was created 1st Pringle Baronet of Stichill, in the Baronetcy of Nova Scotia, in 1683. The present laird is Lt-Gen Sir Steuart Robert Pringle, KCB, 10th Baronet.



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Old Photograph Kilmory Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Kilmory Castle, also known as Kilmory House, located just to the south of Lochgilphead, Argyll, Scotland. A house may have stood here as early as the 14th century. The Campbells built a house, or extended the existing one, between 1816 and 1820. Eliza Campbell, the eldest daughter and co-heir of Peter Campbell, married Sir John Orde, 2nd Baronet in 1824. He purchased the estates following the death of his father in law in 1828 and of his wife in 1829. Orde demolished the modest old Campbell house and replaced it with the grand Gothic style mansion designed by architect Joseph Gordon Davis. Sir John Powlett Orde was born on 9th June 1803 at Gloucester Place, St Marylebone, London, England, the son of Sir John Orde, 1st Baronet. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford where he graduated with a BA. He married Eliza Campbell, eldest daughter and co-heir of Peter Campbell, of Kilmory, Argyll, on 15 June 1826. They had one son and three daughters. His father in law died in Jamaica in 1828 and upon the death of his wife in 1829 he inherited the estates in Jamaica and Scotland. He remarried in 1832 to Beatrice Edwards. Orde rebuilt Kilmory Castle in a Gothic style to a design by architect Joseph Gordon Davis, and remodelled the grounds with the aid of William Jackson Hooker. Kilmory is now the headquarters of Argyll and Bute Council. He was succeeded by his son Sir John William Powlett Orde who, in 1880, obtained Royal Licence to assume the surname of Campbell Orde


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Old Photograph Lanfine House Scotland

Old photograph of Lanfine House by Galston, East Ayrshire, Scotland. This Scottish mansion house was built for John Brown, born 1729, died 1802, a successful textile manufacturer and banker. He was also a bailie in the city of Glasgow. The building work was undertaken by James Armour of Mauchline, who was to become the father-in-law of Robert Burns. Lanfine House was completed in 1772. On the death of John Brown in 1802, his son Nicol Brown took over as Laird of Lanfine and Waterhaughs. After the death of Nicol Brown in 1829, the estate was inherited by his cousin Thomas Brown, a physician in Glasgow, and for a time, Professor of Botany at Glasgow University.



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